Sexual dimorphism in aipysurine sea snakes (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae).

Elapidae Hydrophiinae fecundity selection mate-searching mating system

Journal

Royal Society open science
ISSN: 2054-5703
Titre abrégé: R Soc Open Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101647528

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 07 09 2023
accepted: 20 11 2023
medline: 14 12 2023
pubmed: 14 12 2023
entrez: 14 12 2023
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The transition from terrestrial to aquatic life by hydrophiine elapid snakes modified targets of natural selection and likely affected sexual selection also. Thus, the shift to marine life also might have affected sexual dimorphism. Our measurements of 419 preserved specimens of six species of aipysurine snakes (genera

Identifiants

pubmed: 38094274
doi: 10.1098/rsos.231261
pii: rsos231261
pmc: PMC10716647
doi:

Banques de données

Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.t1g1jwt82']

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

231261

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Authors.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

We declare we have no competing interests.

Auteurs

R Shine (R)

School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.

T G Shine (TG)

School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.

G P Brown (GP)

School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.

V Udyawer (V)

Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, Northern Territory 0810, Australia.

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